| Show TWO WOMEN HAVE MUCH experience IN CROSSING THRU GRAND CANYON mrs hortense xcell excell E teacher at the north rim school and mrs airs leah kunz clerk of the school board recently made the trip from the north rim of grand Grana canyon to flagstaff under great difficulties and hazards kazarda ha zarda the little city of north rim him at this time of year Is snowed in and anyone getting out must descend the great gorge to the tho Colorado river and climb 01 out t on this sided mrs excell taught all 11 wa winter itter on a utah certificate and came over to take the quarterly teach teachers drs examinations held at tho the court house by mrs charlotte acker I 1 tho the women tell vividly of their jo journey urney by tram by foot and by mule back in a blinding snow storm men alen constructing tile the power house in bright angel creek t to supply the now new union pacific hotel dally daily go down to work in baskets traveling on seventeen cables between towers of a two and a half mile tramway and think nothing of it one span la Is a quarter of a mile long jong over a young grand canyon mrs kunz took her aerial ride us a matter of course until she c carelessly are lessly glanced over the edge of the t lie cage the a upper halt of bright angel trail la Is under deep snow or the two women would ascend to their homes on the return trip without taking the tramway from the tho power house the two walked five miles to phantom ranch in the bottom or of the canyon then they traversed the foot swaying suspension bridge over the colorado river on this side they were lucky in finding a government pack train they wore were given mules on an which they rode up tip the yaqui trail to south rim they thought that their trip to tho the river had furnished enough thrills for or on one timo time but just as they started the ascent tit a snow storm materialized and in no time nothing was visible beyond th the m mules tiles ears but bottomless depths of fleecy nothingness slush on the trail added to the uneasiness the railroad brought them the rest of the way to flagstaff they left tuesday night for their return mrs kunz wife of 11 S kunz con st ruction foreman of tile the news new union pacific hotel on oil north rim told a nui liehr or of remarkable facts about N north orth rini rim government weather reports giving the snowfall and low temperatures of north rini rim aro are taken two miles back from tile the hotel and settlement ett lement which Is on oil the very edge of tile lie chasm chasin warm air from the canyon depths rising against tile the cliffs greatly moderate the climate there at no time this winter has tile the temperature at north rim reached the freezing point but two nilles back from tile the edge it reached fifteen degrees below zero and much polder as the distance increased there is no snow at north rim but it IL Is s foot feet deep on the level two miles inland and there are drifts as high as a house alie company snow plow kept tile roads roada open a few faw milos back tho the altitude at north rim kirn la Is the bottom of the canyon a mile and a quarter almost straight down tho the slanting suns rays beating on oil this vertical wall venerates heat enough to ove almost summer weather on the sheltered terea shelf at tho the top Cocon coconino hio sun flagstaff arizona |
